The death of Rollerblading: How in-line skating fell flat, and fast

In the go-go days of the dial-up era, in-line skaters pulled on their Spandex shorts, powered up their Discmans and plied parkways nationwide. Twenty-two million people strapped into the rigid skates with the single-file wheels at least once in the year 2000, five million more than played baseball. Read the article of oregonlive.com here